She was super cute with serious stage presence, too bad you can’t tell from my pictures.

HOMETOWN HEROES
Friday, May 2, 2008

So my brother is a DJ and is in a band called HERO. Since I’m a loving sister and I want them to do well, I thought I would use this platform for a shameless plug of his gig on Friday. Check out this making of a video video on Facebook, My brother is DJ Taktiks.

The Academy loves their hometown Canadian talent, and we’d like you to show your love as well. Toronto hip hop fans have continued to show love to the out-of-town A-list, however a significant portion of those who love hip hop in the TDot, do not show the same support to the amazing local talent we have at home. There’s many who talk the talk, but don’t walk the walk as far as supporting their own, and this situation needs to change. Having confidence and pride in our local hip hop, will translate to their success internationally. A revival and re-birth of Toronto and Canadian hip hop is a necessity, and that begins with recognizing our HOMETOWN HEROES.

The Stats:
HERO (EDot / Darp Malone / DJ Taktiks)
Album: EDot and Darp Malone are HERO
Location: Scarborough / Edmonton / Brooklyn
Hobbies: watching flip that house, debating, reading about sleezy NY govenors
Website: http://www.thirstymusic.com

El Mocambo (main floor)
464 Spadina Ave.
Toronto
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Buy Design for Windfall 2008

On Saturday, April 26 2008 Toronto’s Distillery Historic District will play host to the 5th annual BUY DESIGN charity gala: Buy Design 54. Supporting Windfall Clothing Service, Canada’s only NEW clothing bank, party-goers will strut their stuff in Halston lamé or polyester pant suits to the tunes of the 70’s.

I have 5 pairs of tickets to give away for The Clothing Show from May 2 - 4, 2008. The first 5 people to comment before April 30, 2008 win. Please use your real name and email so I can contact you. Tickets will be left at The Clothing Show for you to pickup.

Shop from over 350 booths of new label, designer, vintage and brand name clothing and accessories for men & women! This Spring, experience RUNWAY Fashion Shows Friday night & Saturday, the LOULOU Magazine Fashion Photography Competition, a Century of Fashion display, and Art exhibits from local artists! Join us for our Opening Night Party and Fashion Shows starting at 6:30pm, Friday May 2nd at the Better Living Center. Come early and shop from 3pm!

May 2, 3, & 4, 2008
Better Living Center, Exhibition Place.
Fri 3pm-9pm / Sat 11am-9pm / Sun 11am-7pm
Tickets $8 on-line, $10 at the door

EDIT: Contest is closed folks, I have my winners.

Mass Exodus 2008

I attended my first Mass Exodus show. For those of you that don’t know, Mass Exodus is Ryerson’s fashion show for graduating students. I attended the press and industry show, so we saw the top 20 collections of the graduating class. It was interesting to watch Mass Exodus because it’s raw. These kids haven’t been broken down by the industry or have had there creativity stifled - well maybe the teachers helped there, but I can’t say for sure. They are excited about fashion and that is wonderful.

The production value of the show was excellent. The theater department was involved and there was a large set, smoke machines, lights and video. It was well organized and executed. I heard about the excessive number of swimwear and lingerie collections last year but this year there was only one and it was pretty good. I thought the bottom could have used some more fabric though. Not many collections grabbed me to be honest. Some kids were drinking way too much of the 80s kool aid and not in a good way.

In general, I liked the collections with the biggest dresses, where else are you going to be able to pull of this kind of collection but school.

Janet Hum’s finale was actually a lot of fun. It was very dramatic with the music and smoke machines.

I wish I knew the criteria used on the collections.

If you wish to see more photos from Mass Exodus check this flickr page. There were a ton of photographers at the event actually.

Thanks for letting me borrow your camera Andrew.

I attended [FAT] aka Toronto Alternative Arts and Fashion Festival this past week. You can read about it on blogTO. I am a little disappointed that I didn’t get to see the fashions on Friday.

I had photographer friends the whole time and here are some photos from the event by Daryl Banks.


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Danielle looks good in my Rick Owens coat.

Cute girls in front row.

That Rea is a style hound.

I’m in the Fashion Magazine April 2008 issue with some peeps from the Toronto fashion scene.

The ad is for the Buy Design for Windfall fundraiser. I had no idea that we would end up in a full page spread in Fashion Magazine, it’s kinda neat. Unfortunately the left hand side got a bit cutoff because of the magazine seam.

EDIT: I’ve replaced the image with one that isn’t cut off. Click the image to see a larger version

I attended the Dean Davidson Spring 2008 preview at Holt Renfrew yesterday. Here are some style shots of the attendees. Look for my feature on the preview on blogTO.com complete with better product shots. Mine suck.

Love, love, love the blue tights.

This DVP dress is fantastic, it comes in silver also. Perfect draping without making the dress hippy.

Mary from Holt’s is my fashion hero. She has such an amazing sense of style. She also has the most kick ass jewelry I’ve seen.

Famous Architect Zaha Hadid (Who did the fun LV bag) has created a travelling exhibition pavilion for Chanel

It kicks off in Hong Kong in a month and features 20 contemporary artists works based around Chanel’s back catalogue of iconic handbags.

The Artists are:
Yoko Ono
David Levinthal
Stephen Shore
Michael Lin
Blue Noses
Leandro Erlich
Sylvie Fleury
Tabaimo
Sophie Calle
Wim Delvoye
Lee Bul
Soju Tao
Loris Cecchini
Subodh Gupta
Yang Fudong
Fabrice Hyber
Pierre & Gilles
Y.Z. Kami
Nobuyoshi Araki

The exhibition will travel to Hong Kong, Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles, London, Moscow and Paris

Check it out at Wallpaper Mag.

See the Chanel Mobile Art website.

image: wallpaper.com

The 14th Toronto Fashion Bloggers Brunch
Sunday, January 27, 2008

At Brassaii

So, I just joined a new gym. It was a rather traumatizing experience. My old gym, The Wellington, was my hangout for about 5 years. I knew the staff and many of the squash players there. Extreme Fitness took over after The Sports Clubs of Canada went tits up. At first, I figured they would keep the squash program considering how many people were at the gym for squash. I was wrong, they are dumping the squash program to add internet lounges and stupid yoga studios. I was really pissed off, so I left for the Adelaide Club.

The Adelaide Club is the type of club the Wellington only dreams of being (Yes, I’m really bitter). It’s much cleaner with better facilities and they have squash courts that won’t be going anywhere anytime soon. The owner is a big squash fan and player. The club actually had about 12 courts back in the day. To the Wellington’s credit, they did have the some great squash courts. So good that I ignored the rest of the club’s faults.

Well it’s weird being the new kid on the block at the Adelaide so I decided to attend the 30th anniversary party hoping to meet some of the members and basically party my ass off. I accomplished both things that night and had a great time. None of these pictures include me. I was gone when they were taken; off to a birthday party. I did hear from a little birdy that the party went on till the wee hours of the morning though.

I feel a lot more comfortable at the Adelaide now. I guess stumbling and dancing around the place drunk has that effect. Now, I just have to get over the fact that Shawn from Bustle is a squash player there. I’m pretty sure both of us never expected to see each other there.